Speakers 2022

Sylvie Coulon

Sylvie Coulon, PhD

International Bilateral Relations Policy Officer

Dr Sylvie Coulon is a veterinary doctor who works at the European Commission in the Directorate General for Health since 2002. She started her career as a rural veterinary practitioner in the....

Teresa Fernandez

Teresa Fernandez

Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability Senior Manager for Seafood and Value-Added

Teresa is the Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability Senior Manager for Seafood and Value-Added for Hilton Foods. She is currently responsible for the implementation of the Hilton Foods....

Thue Barfod 2

Global Director of Fish and Seafood Cargo

Following his graduation from The Danish Merchant Marine Academy as Master Marine and a few years at sea, Thue began his shore-based career in 2000 and has held various positions within the group in....

Tim O'Reilly

Managing Director and Owner

Timothy O’Reilly is the Managing Director and Owner of Taprobane Seafood Group, Sri Lanka’s largest and most fully integrated seafood company, with more than 2000 direct employees, fifteen processing....

Tom Prins

Head of Dealflow

Tom manages the process of sourcing and screening business opportunities for Aqua-Spark and negotiating new investments. Based in Bangkok, Tom is heading the Aqua-Spark Asia office, focused on deal....

Travis Larkin at the GSF 2023

Seafood Exchange

Travis Larkin is CEO and owner of Seafood Exchange, a seafood importing and wholesale company based in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. He joined Seafood Exchange in 1997 from Darden Restaurants, where....

Valerie Robitaille

Valerie Robitaille

Co-Founder and CEO

Valerie Robitaille is the Founder and Chair of the Board at XpertSea, a technology company transforming how seafood is farmed and sourced to help feed the world. A marine scientist and aquaculture....

Victor Suresh

Victor Suresh, PhD

Technical Director

Dr Victor Suresh received his higher education in aquaculture and entered into the feeds sector in R&D, product development and formulation with Ralston Purina International, USA. He has been working....

Vidar Gundersen

Vidar Gundersen

Global Sustainability Director

Vidar Gundersen is the Global Sustainability Director at BioMar Group. He joined BioMar in 2002 with responsibilities spanning from product management to feed concept and strategy development. He has....

Walter Coppens

Walter Faaij

Green Culture Lab

Corporate Anthropologist

Walter Faaij (1984) is corporate anthropologist, sustainability consultant and keynote speaker. Walter founded Green Culture Lab in 2010 and is an expert on sustainability, corporate culture and....

Wendy Banta

Head of Supply Chain Assurance

Wendy is Head of Supply Chain Assurance at ASC since November 2021. She joined ASC in February 2018 as Senior Programme Assurance Manager from her previous position in the Supply Chain Standards team....